Data-SKUP 2024

Helena Bengtsson er dataredaktør i Gota Media. Mediekonsernet har 14 ulike redaksjoner som publiserer saker fra den sydlige delen av Sverige. I dette seminaret deler hun sine erfaringer om hvordan hun jobber opp mot lokalaviser for å få dem til å tenke data og lage datajournalistikk tross små ressurser. Det har norske redaksjoner mye å lære av.

BTs datajournalist Philipp Bock viser vei gjennom jungelen av enklere 3D-verktøy som kan brukes både som metode i journalistisk arbeid og til presentasjon av saker.

In recent years, Telegram has evolved beyond a simple messaging application, becoming a platform for audiences to consume information and a tool for journalists to monitor and track conflicts, wars, and other incidents around the world. Aside from its general use, Telegram has become a widely used platform for those with malicious goals to disseminate disinformation and smear campaigns, spread hate speech and fear, and orchestrate influence operations aimed at shaping public opinion. This session will guide journalists through overall investigation process on Telegram, teaching them methods to identify and investigate channels effectively, techniques and tools to collect and analyze Telegram data via command-line interface (CLI) and graphical user interface (GUI) tools. The session will also showcase real-life case studies to demonstrate the nuanced tactics frequently employed by malicious actors.

We've all been there. It's been weeks or months since we did the analysis. It's almost publication time and the story has reached the fact-checking stage. Can you explain every number? Maybe you used filters, but have long since undone and redone them? What did you do exactly? Why did you do it? What assumptions did you make? Participants will learn concrete ways of making your spreadsheets self-documenting and ready for the fact-checking stage - assuring a better experience for everyone involved! Familiarity with spreadsheets is ideal, but the concepts we will cover apply to any data analysis for investigative journalism. We'll be using Google Sheets.

On May 14, more than 70 media outlets around the world published the Dubai Unlocked project, an international investigation into the owners of real estate in Dubai. Based on leaked property records from 2020 and 2022, it’s the first project of its kind to look at ownership in the Emirate on a global scale, identifying scores of property owners we believe it is in the public interest to write about. Cleaning, disseminating and verifying the data was a massive lift! In this session we will explain how we got the data in shape and managed the workflow for such a large international collaboration.

E24 co-lead the project together with OCCRP, and Eiliv Frich Flydal will tell you how everything started and how and why Dubai should be on your radar. Karina and Eric will tell you how they worked on millions on rows of difficult data, matched it with new sources and made it available to reporters around the globe.

Independent Ukrainian news website Texty.org.ua has specialised in making data journalism stories from the ongoing war in the country. Meet editor in chief Roman Kulchynsky, NLP specialist Nataliia Romanyshyn and datajournalist Yevheniia Drozdova. 
They have this goal for the readers: Understand the essence of things, pay attention to the main thing and explain what is really happening. 
Through data journalism they focus on the crimes of the Russian army in Ukraine, reveal the techniques of Russian propaganda, write about how Ukraine fights. They value high-quality texts, know how to work with data and pay a lot of attention to design.
In this session they are also joined by Ukrainian journalist Pavlo Krasnomovets, who was editor of Forbes Ukraine when Russia's full scale invasion of his homeland started in 2022. Now he is in exile in Norway and works for Aftenposten.